Two hundred years after it was written, L’infinito widens the gaze again. In its nimble survey of some of the biographical and philosophical realms in which the 21-year-old Leopardi conceived these verses, this book brings out highly topical questions: what is politics, being a stranger, our sense of ourselves, how private and public human conflicts affect us, the profound transformations that descend from a friendship. Written as a philosophical novel, this essay draws us into the great horizons that Leopardi opened around himself and for all of us.